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My PCE white displaying either white (most of the times) or teal blue screen without a cart inserted.

When a cart, everdrive or arcade card is inserted everything seems to be working ok.

I'm a bit worried about the teal blue screen that I get sometimes without a cart inserted. Does it mean something is wrong with my console?

If it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

WTF?  It's almost June 1st.  You're two months late.

Is this a PC Engine Duo R or something where you're expecting the system card screen to show up or a regular white PCE with no built in menu?

Quote from: crazydean on 05/26/2017, 05:28 PMIf it ain't broke, fix it till it is!

LOL!!! that's a good one ;)

It means nothing. The PC Engine just displays whatever code is in the video RAM as a color. It entirely depends on the make and model of the SRAM used as video RAM. The exact same thing happens with the NES and Famicom.

Quote from: DragonmasterDan on 05/26/2017, 05:43 PMIs this a PC Engine Duo R or something where you're expecting the system card screen to show up or a regular white PCE with no built in menu?

Its a white regular PCE, not expecting anything to show up without a card but a white screen. Its just that sometimes I get a light blue screen and I was wondering if thats an error color code of some kind. The console seems to be working fine though, everdrive, cds all ok.

Maybe I'm flipping the switch too fast, I noticed that if i turn it on, then back off and on again fast, a color screen shows up (light blue or green)...

Quote from: HuMan on 05/26/2017, 05:45 PMIt means nothing. The PC Engine just displays whatever code is in the video RAM as a color. It entirely depends on the make and model of the SRAM used as video RAM. The exact same thing happens with the NES and Famicom.

Thank you for the info, I appreciate it ;)

I got worried because I read somewhere that solid color screens are error codes.

So nothing to worry about right?

Dude. No. It's fine. They all do this.